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Macrobrachium
Genus of crustaceans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male.[2]
Quick Facts Macrobrachium, Scientific classification ...
Macrobrachium | |
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Macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, a commercially important species | |
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Macrobrachium latidactylus, scissor river prawn from the Philippines | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Caridea |
Family: | Palaemonidae |
Genus: | Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 |
Type species | |
Macrobrachium americanum Bate, 1868 [1] |
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